Cicely Mary Barker’s complete collection of Flower Fairies has been brought together in an exclusive new presentation by The Folio Society, with fully restored original paintings. Barker’s whimsical verses introduce the reader to fairies that appear throughout the seasons, as different trees and plants bloom. This new Folio Society box set sees Barker’s exquisite paintings and nature-inspired poems presented as a complete collection, in an exclusive new layout that best displays these imaginative illustrated verses. Each poem is individually presented on the facing page to its relevant painting, just as in the first editions of Barker’s little volumes. Barker’s paintings are both botanically accurate and exquisite in their execution, and these delicate watercolours have been painstakingly restored from the original editions.